Nelson Piquet, Jr.

Many of the spectators in Long Beach had the same reaction Saturday when they watched the cars race by for the first time. The fans broke into a smile, turned to their companions and said, in so many words: "Isn't that interesting?" Indeed, many never had seen anything like it: Electric-powered race cars that whisked by with the sound of a high-pitched vacuum cleaner instead of the conventional roar of an internal-combustion engine. The novelty was Formula E, a new series whose 10-race global schedule included Saturday's inaugural race on the same seaside streets used in the long-running Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The Long Beach ePrix, as it was called,...

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Many of the spectators in Long Beach had the same reaction Saturday when they watched the cars race by for the first time.
The fans broke into a smile, turned to their companions and said, in so many words: "Isn't that interesting?"
Indeed,...